Career
Born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1945, she was raised in rural Eastern Ontario and educated at Queen"s University and the University of Grenoble before moving to Montreal, Quebec in 1967. Initially working as a journalist, she was a founding editor of publications such as The Last Post, Des luttes et des rires des femmes, Spirale and Tessera. Beginning in 1980, she taught journalism at Concordia University until 1991, and published novels and essay collections.
While she has never published a poetry collection of her own, her prose work draws heavily on poetic forms and structures, and was anthologized in Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women"s Poetry and Poetics (2009).
She has also published translations of Delisle"s Helen avec un secret, Lise Tremblay"s Louisiana danse juive and France Théoret"s Laurence. Her novel The Obituary was a shortlisted nominee for the 2011 Grand Prix du livre de Montreal.
She is an out lesbian.
